[ConservingFreedom]

My sense is that if the state argues ‘freedom of choice’ to institute gambling, and then allows only 3 or 4 casinos as part of the law with everything else still illegal, then they’ve simply played the people and really have not been in favor of freedom. They’ve been in favor of enriching gambling industry cronies and their own tax budgets....not ‘freedom of choice.’

True - but more freedom is better than less freedom.

[xzins]

In the case of the gambling sleight-of-hand, I’d have to disagree. They have provided an illusion of freedom.

It would be like having freedom of the press, but only on Sundays between 5th and Broad Streets.